Skystead Ranch

In Skystead Ranch we play a farmer having a ranch on a couple of floating islets. While it does have some farming aspects, I think it's more a creature collector and possible a... mhm... puzzle game? Managment? But not! Don't get me wrong, it's not a managment game! But you have to shuffle the segments of each part of your farm around a LOT to catch all those Skylets. Or make them feel welcome on your ranch. I really enjoyed that part about the game. Figuring out what works. Seems all simple enough, until you realize there is one Skylet, which wants you to already have 14 (unique) Skylets on that one plot of land. And to make it even more challenging (if you hunt achievements), you also need the other Dinos thrown in there. Took me probably the most of my playtime to figure it out. Skystead Ranch has potential! I think it can be a really good game. But at the moment it has still some quirks, which frustrated me a lot - fishing! Seriously, I hate fishing in this game! And it's ocassionally buggy. I'm sure they'll work on the kinks tho. Looking forward to getting back to it at some later time!

At first I found the game clunky and slow. After a couple of hours, though, I started to get into it: terraforming the island, befriending skylets, accessing new zones, planting food for the skylets. Some things I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do, but I was enjoying myself. Moving into the mines made the computer grind endlessly (or for about three minutes anyway), as did leaving it again,, which is a problem. Also I'd had issues with exiting to the main menu taking several minutes *every* time. Finally this morning I hit a point where my computer was telling me that the program wasn't responding when I was trying to exit. A one-time issue is okay, but this was very clearly a trend. I'm not willing to fight a game in order to get anything out of it. Revised after another 18 hours: I'm not sure why I'm still playing this game. I want what the game *could* be, but it's so frustrating to see what it *isn't*. So much stuff that doesn't work. So much stuff that could be handled better. And yet I've been having trouble figuring out what I want to play next, so here I am. My roommate is threatening to take away my computer so she doesn't have to hear me complain, but here I…

I play lots of cozy games but this one is different. You meet tons of cute creatures super early, You start with plenty of land (although cleaning it all up on day 1 felt like a grind). I love the theme, you play as a rancher with a magic crook. Night time in the game can be a bit long. Good to see the Devs improving the game with regular updates!

I've been looking for something similar to Viva Pinata, and Skystead Ranch is as close as I've come. It's easy to play and extremely releaxing.

this game is awesome ! i have some mixed feelings about it as it is very unfinished but i see a lot of potential here . it 's definitely buggy and has a lot of mild inconveniences , like walking speed and collision , but overall it 's a really cute game with a lot of upsides :3 i 'd suggest not playing this yet if you want a finished product , but if you 're like me and you are willing to [i] ( or you like to! ) [/i] watch games develop and grow , then this game is definitely fun to play :) it 's got a good chunk of playtime even with it being unfinished !! this game is super fun though , i absolutely love sitting at my desk and playing this game after a long day and interacting with my skylets :333

It's still really rough around the edges but just has so much heart and is just so lovely to play. The narrator is HILARIOUS, I love him to bits, please marry me. Viva Pinata is sort of back!